The act of being the laziest, complainiest railway signal maintainer on the job
You see that railway signal maintainer going home early and paying himself for a full day'swork? He has done nothing when he was here and now I have to do his job for him. He just pulled a Machado again.
Brought to public attention by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in the book on the fall of Richard Nixon, All The President’s Men, ratfucker was Nixon’s term for a political operative who sows chaos among opponents; an agent provocateur. It is thought to have originated among campus political rivalries at USC, and seems to have some usage in the US military.
Along with Nixon’s other ratfuckers, Roger Stone caused fights at otherwise peaceful Democratic Party protests to generate a false narrative that the Democrats were violent and dangerous.